S.H.
Picture taker
I had good results using some black acrylic paint to patch some small holes. Of course it is just a temporary fix.
tunalegs
Pretended Artist
The curtains in the Exakta are really easy to replace (relatively speaking of course). http://www.zorkikat.com/2011/12/my-second-exakta-and-the-replacement-of-its-shutter/ You've gotta love how the entire mechanism is attached to the mirror box and lifts out as a unit.
yinyangbt
MFL addicted
Thank you all for posting in this thread , I found info about the Exakta . I am a fan without a camera :bang: Feeling that I'm developping a GAS attack :angel:
A question : it seems that there are two versions of Exakta IIa : one with black name plate and one with the engraved name (classical look ) Do you know when the black name plate entered in production (seems to me 1957 , but I am not shure at all )
A question : it seems that there are two versions of Exakta IIa : one with black name plate and one with the engraved name (classical look ) Do you know when the black name plate entered in production (seems to me 1957 , but I am not shure at all )
Sejanus.Aelianus
Mentor
German kit seems to like being used. I've got 2 Hasselblad lenses that came with lazy shutters. Both started to wake up after a bit of use and have been just fine ever since (about ten years and counting)
Vince Lupo
Untitled
There are actually 8 versions of the VXIIa, beginning in 1957 and ending in 1962 (this is according to Aguila and Rouah). The engraved name did start in about 1957, the embossed name (which many consider to be the prettiest) was Versions 3 and 4 (Version 4 only said 'IIa', not 'VXIIa'), and the black plate version with the block caps letters was Version 5 (1961) onwards.
I just came back from a quick trip to Florida for work, and stopped at beautiful Jekyll Island, GA for a visit. I took along my VX Version 1, and it worked great. One shot from the trip....
yinyangbt
MFL addicted
Great shot , Vince ! Thanks for the answer !
yinyangbt
MFL addicted
Vince , there are some dicussions of variants of replacing courtains .Most go for cutting and replacing by glueing the part of courtains wich is exposed to the frame .Other variant is the one that replaces the courtains by new ones manufactured by new cloth.
How difficult is to remove the courtains from one body and transferring to another one ? Can you give some details about the procedure ? Somebody on another forum said it can't be done without degrading them .
Vince Lupo
Untitled
I don't know how difficult it is, but I did talk to Frank Marshman this week about this very thing. There is a place called Aki Asahi ( http://www.aki-asahi.com/store/ ), and they do offer shutter curtain material. For Frank, who normally repairs a lot of cameras, doesn't always have the luxury of time to make new curtains, and for him it is quicker and cheaper to take them out of another body. Frank has done this very thing a couple of times for me, and he's been repairing cameras for over 40 years, so he likely just knows how to do it without damaging the curtains.
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
FWIW, Microtools (the main distributor for camera repair components in North America and Europe) also has curtain material - but besides the regular kind, Aki Asahi also offers a double laminated quality that cannot be got elsewhere.
summar
Well-known
A few years ago I was given a Voigtlander Bessamatic with three lenses, a 35, 50 and 135mm. The camera (ca. 1960) hadn't been used in decades. It has a leaf shutter, so I was surprised to find all the speeds within tolerance. The meter was still accurate. A pleasant camera when you get used to it, built like a tank.
tunalegs
Pretended Artist
The problem with replacing the curtains by swapping them is resetting the shutter timing, this can be extremely time consuming and frustrating unless you have another camera on hand to reference. Otherwise you have to remove the curtains from their spindles and just swap the curtains themselves - at which point you may as well go all the way and cut new curtains out of new material.